The Helm core maintainers have identified a high severity security vulnerability in Go's crypto
package affecting all versions prior to Helm 2.16.8 and Helm 3.1.0.
Thanks to @ravin9249 for identifying the vulnerability.
Impact
Go before 1.12.16 and 1.13.x before 1.13.7 (and the crypto/cryptobyte
package before 0.0.0-20200124225646-8b5121be2f68 for Go) allows attacks on clients resulting in a panic via a malformed X.509 certificate. This may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
Patches
A patch to compile Helm against Go 1.14.4 has been provided for Helm 2 and is available in Helm 2.16.8. Helm 3.1.0 and newer are compiled against Go 1.13.7+.
Workarounds
No workaround is available. Users are urged to upgrade.
References
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in the Helm repository
- For security-specific issues, email us at [email protected]
- https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-cjjc-xp8v-855w
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7919
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-announce
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/-sdUB4VEQkA
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/Hsw4mHYc470
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4848
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://go.dev/cl/216677
- https://go.dev/cl/216680
- https://go.dev/issue/36837
- https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/b13ce14c4a6aa59b7b041ad2b6eed2d23e15b574
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Hsw4mHYc470
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0229
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S43VLYRURELDWX4D5RFOYBNFGO6CGBBC
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200327-0001
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cjjc-xp8v-855w